Any advice for building towns?

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#157611371Wednesday, March 11, 2015 3:11 AM GMT

One of the big problems I have with building large scale projects: I don't know what I'm doing...It's true! I can build a house, But if I try to build a town, I get lost at just mapping it out. So what do some of you do during Planning if you are building a town? What form of medium blends well in use (Bricks? Terrain? Mix n' Mash?)?

powerfultyphlosion

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#157611755Wednesday, March 11, 2015 3:18 AM GMT

Try making a bunch of houses and then later combining them into one neighborhood.

BillTrollberg

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#157706339Thursday, March 12, 2015 11:11 PM GMT

I hate the fact that I'm bumping the dead thread, but oh well. I can build a bunch of houses, But when I put it all together, I can't organize anything. It looks sloppy, and I need planning to work in my favor. Unfortunately that seems to NEVER work, but I digress.

GodShowsTheWay

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#157706452Thursday, March 12, 2015 11:12 PM GMT

Download Google Earth Pro and look at some towns on there. See how they are organized and try to recreate it on ROBLOX.

GodShowsTheWay

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#157706512Thursday, March 12, 2015 11:13 PM GMT

or just use this: https://www.google.ca/maps

BillTrollberg

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#157707961Thursday, March 12, 2015 11:32 PM GMT

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SkriptBlox

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#157712445Friday, March 13, 2015 12:28 AM GMT

Whenever I am building houses or other buildings, I like to look at reference photos just to make sure I am getting the structure to look like the actual thing. If you're having trouble with laying out the town, just think about how your town is. There will be gas stations, restaurants, and stores scattered out throughout the map. Make sure if you're making multiple neighborhoods that they are sort of spaced out so it doesn't look as clustered. I like to look at popular towns from a sky view to see the road layouts and where you would find certain buildings. It helps me a lot, and I hope it helps you too. Yoυ doɴ'т нαve тo вe α ѕoмeвody тo вe ѕoмeвody.

BillTrollberg

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#157730014Friday, March 13, 2015 5:40 AM GMT

That's what I thought about, I noticed a lot of Communities have a brick layout (so if there was a section of housing, they would be layered like bricks. Which helps make things look better.

distalDigitPhalanx

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#157735815Friday, March 13, 2015 11:38 AM GMT

I recommend dividing your town up into districts. Kinda like a sim-city game I once played. So there'll be housing areas, industry areas, entertainment, etc. Having a nice suburban neighborhood with a huge, grey, brutalist office building in the middle is going to make it weird. I think dividing it up into height too will make it clearer where the differents districts stop. Make up a small story for each block/street/district. Not anything elaborate, just like "This is shopping street. Lots of kiosks and supermarkets", or "This is where all the poor people live."